Siren

(noun.) eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills.

(noun.) an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning.

(noun.) a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound.

(noun.) a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; 'Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song'.

校对:塞尔玛

• A siren worked by explosion of small quantities of oxygen and hydrogen mixed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• How does a Siren Fog Horn Blow? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The mortal maid on the shore is helpless against the siren who loves her prey: such victims are floated back dead from their adventure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Other titles came later into general use, the royal or carthorne, carrying 48 pounds; the culverin, 18 pounds; the demi-culverin, 9 pounds; the basilisk, 48; the siren, 60, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Well, if you don't mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Three other sirens made to give vocal sounds or articulate speech. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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